Bottle carrier



April 2o, 1954 G. c. CUR'mE BOTTLE CARRIER Filed Feb. 19. 1949 3 Sheets-Sheet, l

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G. C. CURRIE BOTTLE CARRIER April 2o, 1954 3 Sheets-Sheet 2 Filed Feb. 19. 1949 6km/El? C 60m2/5,' i

INVENTOR.

ATTPNENA April 20, 1954 G. c. CURRIE 2,675,955

v BOTTLE CARRIER l Fil'ed Feb. 19. 1949 3 sheets-sheet s Gem/R 0. Guxme.,

INVEN TOR.

BY M@ ATTDRNEV.

Patented Apr. 20, 1954 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 2,675,956 v y A f i y, BOTTLE canningA Grover C. Currie, Charlotte, .N v C., assigner to Dacam Corporation, Charlotte, N. C., acorporation of North Carolina Y Application February 19, 1949, serial No. 77,409

1 claim. (o1. 22a-37)A 1 This invention relates to a carton for carrying bottled beverages and the like and more especially to an in'iproved blank and method of cutting a blank so as to result in a minimum of loss of paper stock and also whereby the blank may be folded to form a very rigid carton or container having a hand hole in one of the end Walls of the carton, whereby the fingers of ones hand may be inserted through the hand hole to thereby carry the carton filled with bottled beverages at an angle relative to the vertical, but not at suflicient angle to cause the bottles to have any tendency to fall from the carton, since the overall transverse and longitudinal area of the erected carton is substantially the same as the overall transverse and longitudinal area occupied by six bottled beverages,v to thereby provide frictional engagement between the walls of the Carton and the bottlesand between the proximate portions of the bottles with each other.

It is an object of this invention to provide a bottle carton, the blanks of which are cut froma sheet of paper stock and with avminimum of loss, since the portions of the stock which are cut from one carton forms a portion of another* carton blank, thus resulting in practically no lossof paper stock. y y l v It is another object of this invention to provide a bottle carton cut from a single piece of paper stock, wherein the end wall having the hand hole therein, is, formed from GWG @verlanping layers of carton blank, thus providing substantial rigidity to the end wall of the carton in which the hand hole is provided.

Some of the objects of the invention having been stated, other objects will appear as the description proceeds, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is an elevation showing a carton blank as cut from a continuous sheet of paper stock, and showing portions of adjacent carton blanks in dotted lines;

Figure 2 is a top plan view of the bottle carton in erected position, showing six beverage bottles in dotted lines disposed within the carton;

Figure 3 is an isometric view of the erected carton;

Figure 4 is an isometric view similar to Figure 3, but is taken from the opposite end of the carton from that shown in Figure 3.

Referring more specifically to the drawings, the numeral I I indicates a carton blank adapted to be cut from a piece of paper stock of suitable rigidity. This paper stock may have a linerV appearing on the outside portion of the finished 2 carton, this stock being laminated, though it is quite evident that the carton may be cut from stock not having a liner on one side thereof.

' The paper stock is fed through a cutting and scoring machine which cuts the blanks one afteru another, or, ifv the die is of sufficient size, several blanks may be cut at one operation. Y

l'n Figure 1, the stock is cut along a line broadly indicated at I2 toy produce the blanks II, and at the same time the stockis cut along a partially oval-shaped line I3 to provide a hand 4opening and flap and the [blank also has an opening I4 cut therein. The blank at the same time it is cut fromthe stock is also scored. Y y

The carton blank comprises end walls I5 and I 6 and side walls I1 and I8 and an end flap 20. The carton also has bottom flaps 2| and 22 which are hingedly connected to the lower vedges of the side walls II and rI8 along `score lines 23. It is to be noted in Figure 1' that the linevof cut 25 for the bottom flaps 2I and 22 is of substantially the same Vcontour as the line of cut 26 for the upper edgesof the side walls Il and I8. This results in practically noi waste of stock inthe cut'- ting of 'a plurality ofv blanks from a single sheet of stock, as is shown in Figure 1. Y -The Yend wall I5 is provided with va vertical score line ,3.0 and the end Wall I6 is provided with a vertical` score line 3| and the end flap 2!) has avertical score line 32 therein, for purposes Ato be later described. v

`The end wall portion I5 is hingedly connected at its right-hand end in Figure 1 to the side wall I 'I as by a vertical score line 35 and the side wall I'I is hingedly connected at its other side along a vertical score line 36 to the end wall I5, and the end Wall I5 is hingedly connected at its other side by a vertical score line 31 to the side wall I8. The side wall I8 is hingedly connected at its other side by a score line 38 to the end flap 20.

It will be noted that the end nap 20 has a pair of glue strips 40 thereon, and when the carton blank is erected into a bottle carrier, the end nap 2D is brought into overlapping relation with the inner surface of the end Wall I5 and the glue strips 4I! will adhesively secure the end nap 20 to the end wall I5. It is obvious that as the blank is erected into a carton, the blank will bev folded along the score lines 35, 36, 3l and 38, to thereby form a carton which is substantially rectangular in plan.

In the event that this carton is to be loaded with bottles by hand, the bottom aps 2| and 22 will be rst brought into face to face overlapping relation, and there is on the bottom flap 22 a glue strip 45 which is adapted to adhesively secure the bottom flaps 2I and 22 to each other, it being obvious that the bottom ilap 22 would be folded upwardly first and then the flap 2l would be folded upwardly against the lower surface of the same.

In the event, however, that this carton is to be loaded by means of a packaging machine such as that shown in the Grover C. Currie et al. patent application, entitled Means for Placing Bottles in Open Bottomed Cartons, Serial Number 788,602, filed November 28, 1947, now Patent No. 2,603,924, July 22, 1952, in which the bottles are inserted from the bottom the carton, the bottom iiaps would remain in a downwardly depending position until they are brought into overlapping relation to form a bottom for the carton after the bottles have been inserted l therein, in the manner set forth in said application.

After the carton has been erected, that is, the end iiap secured to the end wall I5, and before the bottom flaps are brought into overlapping relationship, if it is desired to collapse the carton for shipping purposes, the carton may be folded along the score lines and 32 at one end of the erected carton and the score line 3| at the other end of thevcarton, which will cause the side walls I'I and I8 to assume juxtaposed relation-and it is thus seen that the carton will be in a flat state.

It will be noted that a handle flap 50 is formed by the line of cut I3 and when the carton is erected, the iiap 50 may be folded alongV a score line 52 and passed through the opening I4 in the end wall I5 to thereby provide an opening for the fingers of a person who may be carrying the carton.

It is thus seen that when the carton is filled with bottles B and is grasped by an operator by means of the finger opening in the end wall I5. the carton will assume a position at an angle with respect to the vertical, butowing to the fact that the overall area of the carton is substantially the same, after erection, as the overall area occupied by six beverage bottles, as is shown In Figure 2, the side walls and end walls of the carton will exert frictional pressure on the portions of the bottles which engage the carton and the bottles will engage each other and this will prevent the bottles from sliding out of the carton unintentionally.

In the drawings and specification there has been set forth a preferred embodiment of the invention, and although specific terms are employed, they are used in a generic and descriptive sense only, and not for purposes of limitation, the scope of the invention being defined in the claim.

I claim:

A carton for carrying bottled beverages formed from a single `blank of material comprising a substantially rectangular end wall, a side wall hingedly connected at one of its side edges to one of the side edges of said end wall, a second substantially rectangular end wall hingedly connected at one of its side edges to the other side edge of said side wall, a second side wall hingedly connected at one of its side edges to the other side edge of said second-named end wall, an end flap hingeclly connected at one of its side edges to the other side edge of said last-named side wall and being of substantially the same width as the rst named end wall, each of said side Walls having a bottom flap secured to the lower edge thereof, whereby when the carton is erected the bottom iiaps will assume roverlapping relationship with each other, and the rstnamed end wall and said end flap will assume overlapping relationship with each other to form a double wall at one end of said carton, the upper edges of said side walls having cut away portions having substantially the same contour as the contour of the free edges of the bottom flaps, whereby a plurality of cartonA blanks may be cut from a single sheet of paper stock with substantially no loss of paper stock.

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